TABLE 10.-Race distribution of employees in 16 industries for whom certain information was secured, by industry; percentages-Continued. TOTAL. Upon reference to the preceding table it is seen that 60 per cent or more of the male portion of the operating forces in carpet, cutlery and tools, rope, twine and hemp, and zinc smelting manufacturing establishments, as well as 50 to 60 per cent in car building and repairing, foundry and machine-shop products, and sewing-machine manufacturing, were of foreign birth. Of the males of old immigration, the Germans, English, and Irish, and of the southern and eastern Europeans, the North and South Italians and Poles, were most extensively employed. Females were employed in 9 only of the 16 industries, the foreign-born showing their greatest proportions of employees in rope, twine and hemp, carpet, and foundry and machine-shop products manufacturing, in the order mentioned, and their smallest percentages in typewriter, sewing machine, and paper products manufacturing. Females of the races of old immigration from Great Britain and northern Europe were employed in considerable proportions in all the industries employing females, while among the females of recent immigration the Poles give evidence of the greatest diversity of employment. Upon referring to the totals for both sexes, about the same tendencies are observable which have already been noted in the case of the male employees. PERIOD OF RESIDENCE IN THE UNITED STATES OF FOREIGN-BORN EMPLOYEES AND MEMBERS OF THEIR HOUSEHOLDS. The character of recent and past immigration to the mines and manufacturing establishments of the United States is exhibited by the two tables following, which show, by sex and race, the period of residence in the United States of 290,923 employees of foreign birth. |